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...showing by the Giscard-Chirac candidates in France's angry provinces was a clear warning to the centrist parties that they must revise their strategies to stem further leftist inroads. The government will have to devise more effective means of dealing with rising unemployment than Giscard's gradualist economic reforms...
...years of debate, decided against the so-called market approach-that is, a quick end to controls on domestic oil prices, which would allow them to run up to world levels, thereby reducing consumption and encouraging more oil exploration. Instead, Congress-and later the Ford Administration-adopted a "gradualist" approach. Embodied in the energy act passed last year, it essentially maintains oil price controls through 1978, allowing U.S. oil to rise from its controlled level of about $7.50 per bbl. (compared with the current world price of about $13) only in small annual jumps. Critics charge that this pace...
...government -an event that forced the early election-the Communists have had to accelerate their political timetable. In the long run, they still seek a "historic compromise" in which they would share power with the Christian Democrats and the Socialists. In the short run, though, they have become less gradualist. Last week, citing "impelling needs of the present," Berlinguer called for an emergency government of "national solidarity" which would involve all parties except the extreme right neofascists...
Arthur Ashe, the world's only black professional tennis player, in a speech last night a B.U. called for a gradualist, non-isolationist approach to end South Africa's system of apartheid...
Though unforseen, the rise of the Communist Party is not accidental. Since the late fifties, the party has steadily forged its own particular brand of Communism, substituting gradualist mass politics and a broad electoral appeal in place of proletarian revolution. Since the late fifties--especially after Hungary--the IC has shown increasing independence from Moscow, to the point of regularly denouncing Soviet policies. The grand political design of the party, nurtured by its first post war leader Pamiro Togliatti and continued by current party secretary Enrico Berlinguer, pointed toward the attainment of political power by democratic means. And in June...